Chris,
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Chris Stankevitz
chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-natd.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-April/229017.html
Hello,
Handbook section 31.9.3 suggests I should, among other things,
Hi Sreeram,
I am using FreeBSD 9. I would like to know as to what is the lifetime of
the files in /tmp directory. The general description says that these files
*may* not be preserved across a reboot. By this I interpret that if the
system is not rebooted, then these files will be there
Hi,
My printing system is archaic, based on lpr(8), but it works fine for
centralizing printing from Windows (with Samba), Mac and Linux
clients. Plus it includes a printing quota system, so I am reluctant
to change.
When a print job is failing, lpr will try to send a warning email to
Hi,
I have a video surveillance system based on FreeBSD 9.1. I use mencoder
to capture the video from a USB camera, but it usually freeze after few
seconds.
I use the following command to launch the capture, I stop it by sending
a signal.
/usr/local/bin/mencoder tv:// -tv
Hi,
I want to set-up a small server from an Asus P5L-MX motherboard.
It has an onboard gigabit Ethrnet that works with the driver age.
Problem is that at boot, I experience the interface to go up and down a
couple of times, and it is usually down when Apache try to start, so
Apache would not
Thank you, that's what I needed.
Best regards,
Olivier
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
Have you tried using netwait?
I think that would involve
Hello,
What tool do you use to analyze syslog logs?
All tools I can see in the ports seems to rely heavily on some big
configuration file, that had tons of regexp to filter the event messages.
I am wondering if some tool exists that would try to make a
classification of the event messages; that
FreeBSD announce mailing list...
Sexurity announcement (at least) are also cross posted on FreeBSD questions.
Olivier
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Zyumbilev, Peter
pe...@aboutsupport.com wrote:
http://www.freebsd.org/security/rss.xml
?
Peter
On 21/08/2013 09:54, Antonio Kless wrote:
One last comment, for the records,
Those solutions sound pretty handy if I need to move the files at the
same time. mtree should do this in-place with minimal fuss as it's just
confirming permissions and ownership on all files.
I also just thought of an idea I need to benchmark: running mtree
Hello,
On my system legacy users come with UID starting from 200 upward, and
all users come with GID lower that 100.
I know it's not a good idea, but consider that some accounts are over 20
years old!
This is not too much a problem with FreeBSD as I can renumber the few
FreeBSD services that
Thank you,
Those solutions sound pretty handy if I need to move the files at the
same time. mtree should do this in-place with minimal fuss as it's just
confirming permissions and ownership on all files.
I also just thought of an idea I need to benchmark: running mtree with
and without nscd.
Hi,
I have been assigned to offer HA on a 3 tiers architecture.
Data storage tier will be MySQL, so replication is easy.
HA should be implemented only on the Data storage tier, Active/Active,
but one of the sites is remote!
When everything is working, each application accesses the local MySQL
Sam,
It seems that the distribution includes a directory called db_sample
with some tutorials/examples.
But it also seems that the last release of wide-dhcp is 16 years old...
Olivier
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, s m sam.gh1...@gmail.com wrote:
hello guys,
does any body use WIDE-DHCP?
Hello,
My name is Nicole and I'm in the middle of a project to construct a
medium-high investment portfolio. My research has taken me to a number
of different sites, yours being one of them. I know that a lot of work
goes into maintaining a website, so I want you to know that I appreciate
is the solution.
Best regards,
Olivier
On 19 July 2013 10:29, Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote:
Hello,
Could any one comment about the use of the same MAC address in 2
separate VLANs?
All my machines are connected to 2 VLANs (one public and one private)
with no routing
Hello,
Could any one comment about the use of the same MAC address in 2
separate VLANs?
All my machines are connected to 2 VLANs (one public and one private)
with no routing in between the VLANs.
I used to run a FLEX license manager to a physical machine. When I
virtualized that service, I had
Ganesh,
I am new to Nanobsd and trying to create an iso image which can be
installed on vmware machine.
I created an iso image using the disk image
(/usr/obj/nanobsd.full/_.disk.image) generated according to steps
given in NanoBSD
How To
Hi,
i want to change dhclient code and customize it. in order to do that, i
need to know the netmask for offered ip. i see code and found that struct
client_lease *offered_leases, keeps information about offered lease such
as ip address but this structure hasn't any field about netmask. i
wireshark and check the contents of the dialog. I could
see that in the DHCP offer, there is an option field with holds the
netmask. I did not dig any further.
Olivier
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th
wrote:
Hi,
i want to change dhclient code
Hi,
Is there a way to install an X client without automatically
install an
X server?
I don't use emacs, but you can quickly check,
prior to installing, what other ports will be
required, e.g. do
make -C /usr/ports/ search name=emacs-24
After doing my
Anton,
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bris.ac.uk wrote:
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:55:48 +0700 (ICT)
From: Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: X client without X server
Hi
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:47:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
$ pkg info -xd xterm
xterm-293:
xproto-7.0.24
xextproto-7.2.1
renderproto-0.11.1
printproto-1.0.5
libxcb-1.9.1
Hi,
Just my 2¢ worth on this. Sure, one always wants to keep overhead low. But
the days of limited RAM, small hard drives, etc...are long since behind us.
My concern is when portupgrade -a. The more ports on the system, the
more likely the upgrade will fail. So I'd prefer to have as little
Hi,
Is there a way to install an X client without automatically install an
X server?
On all my systems, I throw xterm and emacs, as the primary tools I use
for management, but the display is always remote, I never, ever, run X
on the machine, but still it install X server, fonts and a lot of
Hi,
I have a strange situation: 2 machines, 9.1 p4, on the first machine,
graphicslibfpx build with the stock compiler:
$ make
=== Fetching all distfiles required by libfpx-1.3.1.1 for building
=== Extracting for libfpx-1.3.1.1
= SHA256 Checksum OK for libfpx-1.3.1-1.tar.xz.
=== Patching for
Thank you Anto,
I have a strange situation: 2 machines, 9.1 p4, on the first machine,
graphicslibfpx build with the stock compiler:
$ make
=== Fetching all distfiles required by libfpx-1.3.1.1 for building
=== Extracting for libfpx-1.3.1.1
= SHA256
I have a strange situation: 2 machines, 9.1 p4, on the first
machine,
graphicslibfpx build with the stock compiler:
$ make
=== Fetching all distfiles required by libfpx-1.3.1.1 for
building
=== Extracting for
Hi,
There is an error when poudriere tries to build mysql55-client:
st in /distfiles/.
= Attempting to fetch
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-5.5/mysql-5.5.32.tar.gz
fetch: mysql-5.5.32.tar.gz: local file (24625029 bytes) is longer than
remote file (24589274 bytes)
I'd say
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Sergio Tam tam.ser...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/6/26 Polytropon free...@edvax.de:
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:45:10 +0700 (ICT), Olivier Nicole wrote:
Azalia ADI1986A, 6 -Channel High-Definition Audio CODEC
Support Jack-Sensing, Enumeration, Multi-streaming
S/PDIF out
Hello,
I have an old motherboard Asus P5L-MX that I want to use for an
application. It needs sound.
Asus documentation
(http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5LMX/#specifications) lists the
sound chipset as:
Azalia ADI1986A, 6 -Channel High-Definition Audio CODEC
Support Jack-Sensing, Enumeration,
Hi,
Thank you.
On new 9.1 systems, textproc/asciidoc is being installed as dependency
to many other ports.
But the make install fails with the error:
installing Vim files in //usr/local/share/vim/vimfiles
^
Two slashes here?
That's a copy from the make install,
Hi,
On new 9.1 systems, textproc/asciidoc is being installed as dependency
to many other ports.
But the make install fails with the error:
installing Vim files in //usr/local/share/vim/vimfiles
cp: /usr/local/ETC/asciidoc.conf.sample: No such file or directory
*** [post-install] Error code 1
Hi,
I have a strange thin happening to me. I upgraded two machines from
8.3 to 9.1:
FreeBSD sysl2.cs.ait.ac.th 9.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p3 #3: Fri May
31
14:59:20 ICT 2013 root@fbsd63:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
I did both upgrade in parallel.
On the first
Hi,
I have a strange thin happening to me. I upgraded two machines from
8.3 to 9.1:
FreeBSD sysl2.cs.ait.ac.th 9.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p3 #3: Fri May 31
14:59:20 ICT 2013 root@fbsd63:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
I did both upgrade in parallel.
On the first machine, I
[root@h-qa-033 ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD h-qa-033 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0: Tue May 28 11:26:45 IDT
2013 root@h-qa-033:/usr/obj/lab/odeds/freebsd/9.1.0/sys/MYKERNEL amd64
OFED and IB support are compiled in kernel.
1. How can I unload/load modules that complied inside
Hi,
I would like to known how you manage your gem (ruby) or easyinstall
(python). Do you use ports ? or directly gems or easyinstall ? or both ?
As far as I can, I use ports, for consistency.
But I am using mostly Perl and CPAN is very well integrated in FreeBSD
ports.
Voila.
Olivier
Albert,
I would like to known how you manage your gem (ruby) or easyinstall
(python). Do you use ports ? or directly gems or easyinstall ? or both ?
As far as I can, I use ports, for consistency.
Me too. But what you do when you cannot ? (Like the ports don't exist) ?
I see three
Hi,
I am running an ESXi 5.1 VMware server, with one FreeBSD (8.3) guest.
I am trying to figure how to install the VMware tools:
- the linux one are working, but I woul prefere a more native FreeBSD
- should I install /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guest6d ? It fails with
not finding
Hi,
I have a machine running FreeBSD 6.4. I can hardly upgrade it because
it is more or less an embeded system.
Until recently I was reccording video through a video graber card
(brooktree I think), with mencoder, but the card died.
The easiest way would be to use a USB camera; I plugged one in
Hi,
I have just configured FreeBSD on my server. I would like to find out
how can I be able to login to it via ssh?
Looking forward to hear from you soon.
Thank you
you must enable ssh in /etc/inetd.conf and then read
Or better, in /etc/rc.conf
sshd_enable=YES
Olivier
man ssh
If
Matthew,
NameMtu Network Address Ipkts Opkts
em19000 Link#2 00:0e:0c:5c:32:29 92M 129M
em19000 10.41.170/24 ufo2000 924K 926K
I understand that the line reporting MAc address means the traffic
seen at layer2, while the line
Hello,
I used netstat -i for the first time and I saw something I cannot
understand:
# netstat -ibh -I em1
NameMtu Network Address Ipkts Opkts
em19000 Link#2 00:0e:0c:5c:32:29 92M 129M
em19000 10.41.170/24 ufo2000 924K 926K
I understand
Hi,
I have some trouble on a mail server running 9.0-RELEASE-p3
Last week I set up a NFS mounted partition containing 1 Tb of IMAP folders
the NFS mount is done through a private network link on a dedicated giga
ethernet link with the following config :
10.0.0.1/24 -- 10.0.0.2/24
mailhub
Hi,
Few weeks ago I upgraded many systems from 7.4 to 8.3 and since I feel
that everyting has got much slower:
- connecting a new shell takes 5 secnds between the password and the
first promt;
- imap got slower to the point imp/horde times out
- amanda back-up will not complete
- etc.
I
.
On 2012 November 15 Thursday at 8:37 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote:
Laszlo,
Yesterday I issued the following command which I regretted: portupgrade
-CPy, and this little tool installed perl 5.12 while perl 5.10 was already
on the system. Since then everything is messed up.
Now I deleted perl
Laszlo,
Yesterday I issued the following command which I regretted: portupgrade -CPy,
and this little tool installed perl 5.12 while perl 5.10 was already on the
system. Since then everything is messed up.
Now I deleted perl 5.10 and reinstalled perl 5.10 and everything which
depends on
Hi,
Since I updated all my servers from previous versions of FreeBSD to
8.3 (p4), Amanda started failing for any big back-up.
I cannot trace the problem and would appreciate some help.
For one of the big file system, I did a manual tar-gzip-ssh to amanda
server. It proceeded well, so it seems
Olivier,
I have a question for short (since I failed, possibly due to
configuration inabilities of myself): is it possible to have multiple
SSID on the very same WiFi hardware adapter (TP-Link Atheros based
type)?
Yes. DD-WRT does that very well.
Bests,
Olivier
Idea is, to have pseudo
Rick,
I'm reaching out in hopes that someone may have seen something similar
and can shed some light. Consider an HP DL360p G8 with FreeBSD
8.3-RELEASE-p4, serial port cabled to a Cisco 2800 series terminal
server. Console is configured in the following manner:
/boot/loader.conf:
Hi,
The network card on my HP 4300 is definitely dead. All I am left with
is a... parallel port!
But the printer is still working fine, printing fast and in good
quality.
I don't want to invest in a new network card though, while I have a
bunchg of old systems lying around.
Solutions are:
1)
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:59:52 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:20:35 +0700 (ICT)
Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote:
2) I find a solution to bridge the parallel port and the ethernet
Hi Graeme,
You might be able to dig up a network to parallel port jet direct box
fairly cheap from a well known auction site.
Yes, but shipment to Thailand is like 4 times the price of the card :(
Olivier
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HI Warren
The network card on my HP 4300 is definitely dead. All I am left with
is a... parallel port!
Just for clarity, is that the good kind of HP 4300, a laser printer, or the
other kind, a multifunction inkjet?
That's a good old fashioned HP LaserJet 4300 dt(n) (it has lost the n
with
Hi,
Two night ago, I upgraded my main server to FreeBSD 8.3 and since, I
get those messages:
Message from syslogd@banyan at Oct 19 01:15:32 ...
banyan kernel: )
[...]
I have all my servers running the same release, and this is the only
on exibiting such behavious.
FreeBSD
Gary,
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C program,
but 3+ hours of grepping havent found it. I would have bet my last cent that
I
had a summary Somewhere, but cant find that either.
here
Dear Rei,
One of the clients is running the web site using
FreeBSD 4.7.
[...]
pkg_add -r php4-4.3.6.tgz
I get an error message below.
Error: FTP Unable to get
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.11-release/Latest/php4-4.3.6.tgz:
File unavailable (e.g., file not
Hi,
Two night ago, I upgraded my main server to FreeBSD 8.3 and since, I
get those messages:
Message from syslogd@banyan at Oct 19 01:15:32 ...
banyan kernel: )
Message from syslogd@banyan at Oct 19 01:19:31 ...
banyan kernel: :1b
Message from syslogd@banyan at Oct 19 07:40:00 ...
banyan
Rod,
I was attempting to update ports that used libogg with the command
portmaster -d -y -r libogg
I went away and came back some hours later and some updates had failed.
Now my shell segfaults on any command such as ls, clear or su
I tried to login on another console as root and after
Hi,
Yesterday I upgraded my DNS server from 7.2 to 8.3 and has the
unpleasant suprise to find that named would not restart after the
upgrade.
I think I traced it back to the new /etc/rc.d/named script.
I am runing in named in a chrooted environment and it seems that with
the new script the
Hi,
I did it...
After upgrading from 7.3 o 8.3 pam_ldap stopped working.
LDAP server has been running on a different machine for ages, it is
still running.
Connection to the server is still there: when I enter a wrong password
I get a distinct error message.
When I enter the correct
Hi,
After upgrading from 7.3 o 8.3 pam_ldap stopped working.
LDAP server has been running on a different machine for ages, it is
still running.
Connection to the server is still there: when I enter a wrong password
I get a distinct error message.
When I enter the correct password, I get:
Hi,
While updating my servers I recently found out a stange behaviour.
I have a configuration file for cvsup.
If I set the default tag to be RELENG_7_3, I will build a kernel of
name 7.3-RELEASE-pX
If I set the default tag to be RELENG_7, I will build a kernel of name
7.3-STABLE
Is that
I have been searching everywhere but am unable to find any open source
software for creating a last will and testament.
Open Office?
vi? ed?
emacs?
I used the latest and signed with PGP.
Olivier
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Hi,
I'd think there wouldn't be much hay surviving in a lake of fire,
though.
If you go fishing in this lake of fire, can you use a trident instead
of a pitchfork?
Olivier
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Hi,
2. What upgrade sequence should I use: 6.3 - 6.4 - 7.0 - 7.3 or 6.3
I successfully upgraded 6.4 to 7.3 (sorry I don't have machine with
6.3 anymore)
As I always upgrade from source, I cannot reply about freebsd-update.
Best s,
olivier
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Hi,
Intel(r) Xeon(r) Processor X5560
I learned from the site that FreeBSD for ia64 is still in TIER2. Can
you please advise me on the below.
For Intel Xeon, I think you want the amd64 branch. ia64 would be for
Ithanium.
Bests,
Olivier
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send everything from any facility.level to the loghost EXCEPT things from
$program that's level .info or lower. (so anything that's from
$program.notice
*.notice @loghost
If your program logs to a give facility, for example your program logs
to local7:
local7.notice @loghost
anything
Hi,
4) Another instance of Emacs on my desktop, this time running in a
terminal. The startup screen is yet another one.
In this one, I clearly recognize emacs being run inside an ascii
terminal. Ascii terminal do not have graphic possibility (nor mousse)
so it is only normal that there is no
Hi
Since this is something that potentially almost everyone would need at
least once this should be made very easy for the end user.
I am not sure what you mean. I have penty of machines that are 32 bits
and simply cannot run 64 bits.
If I ever replace one 32 bits machines with a 64 bits new
Hi,
What is the recommended parallel way for a person, who feels
comfortable with FreeBSD, when FreeBSD cannot do the job? - i. e. is
it a good idea to go towards Solaris, instead of Linux? Or rather go
towards some sort of Linux?
I see 2 questions in one.
What virtulization system to use?
What virtulization system to use? Personnally I use ESXi from vmware
This was a great tip, thank you. I wasn't aware that ESXi is a bare metal and
free.
That's the idea: bare metal and free, proxmox has something based
on... I don't remember. I opted for vmware becuase it seems to be more
Hi,
I am trying to build a global backup solution for couple of strategic
servers (7) based on two operating systems :
- FreeBSD (6 - 7 // soon 7 - 8)
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
I am running amanda as a centralized backup solution for FreeBSD,
Linuxes and Windows.
Amanda server is a dedicated
Is it the AMD64 that works with Xeon processors?
Yes.
For historical reason, because amd was the first on the market to
produce 64 bit CPU, it is called amd64.
If you plan to go for FreeBSD 7, you may have to
1) upgrade the firmware of your 1950
2) customize the kernel and remove what is
Hi,
I'm not all up on my Dell models, but I think the 1950 shouldn't
have any troubles with AMD64.
If we go into the details, each model of PowerEdge supports several
different CPU :) So the OP would have to go to the details of his 1950
to know whether amd64 is supported.
Best regards,
Hi,
I looking to take the last group number in a ip address
I would do that with cut(1), setting the dot as the feild delimiter.
bests,
Olivier
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Hi,
I've read about people trying
to throttle outgoing ACKs to slow down their download but that still
wouldn't rearrange any incoming data packets so I don't see how that
would help. I haven't tried it myself though but neither have I read
about anyone successfully accomplishing this.
Hi,
my view is that both mother's and father's day should be held
internationally. it well may be for all i know.
Here in Thailand, father's day is on the King birthday, Dec 5th.
Now how I see of father's day in France, it is a commercial thing
only.
Like one would need a special day to
On my release 8.0 system I find 'portmaster' in the ports but not
in the base system!
csh is base system
portmaster is a port
portmaster is in charge of managing ports
portmaster manages portmaster
portmaster does not manage csh
Bests,
olivier
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I have the same problem when I want to upgrade libtool from 15 to 22,
thanks.
True, libtool is among the several ports affected. For libtool I
uncompressed by hand and so make accepted to complete, but it
defeats the purpose of portupgrade if one has to do everything by
hand.
Since I
Hi,
It seems that it is a problem that appeared before, but the suggested
workaround did not work.
When trying to portupgrade gtk, I get the error:
checking Pango flags... gnome-config: not found
configure: error:
*** Pango not found. Pango built with Cairo support is required
*** to build
Hi,
Since I upgraded that machine from 6.x to 7.3 I am hitting a memory
limit with xz when trying to build/upgrade several ports.
The error message looks like:
/usr/local/bin/xz: /usr/ports/distfiles//libpng-1.4.1.tar.xz: Memory usage
limit reached
/usr/local/bin/xz: Limit was 46 MiB, but
Now FreeBSD with a unique wood floor, that is a very exciting prospect!
Olivier
I know, I know, don't feed them, but I think it is the right time tio
offer beasty a new home! :))
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Hi,
i see that i've used per se. in my ascii type i cannot type
the e-aigu and i cannot find it in any of the docs. 12-15 years
ago when i was first messing with tex i remember there =was= a
way of telling tex to type the diacritical mark over the e
First remark, per se being latin
Hi,
/etc/rc.d/named: WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/sbin/named
/etc/rc.d/named ans /usr/sbin/named are not from the ports but from
native FreeBSD distribution.
Portsx will go into /usr/local/ only.
So apparently you mixed-up distribution and port, deleted part of one
and part of the
Hi,
Precisely what you need to do depends on who your phone company is. It
is frequently done by sending e-mail to an SMS gateway. There are
various ports designed to enable scripting of sending SMS-es to
particular providers -- see comms/p5-SMS-Send-*
I have to check if my phone comapny
Thanks Matthias,
Concerning voice messages, in the past (around 1995) I experimented with
'vgetty' which was fine to build a UNIX based answering machine.
Actually vgetty is in FreeBSD ports: it is part of comms/mgetty+sendfax
Sounds interesting.
Best regards,
Olivier
Hi,
I would like my FreeBSD server to send alarms to my mobile phone, it
could be voice messages or SMS.
I think I can hook a voice modem to that machine, but any suggestion
on the software side?
TIA,
Olivier
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Hi,
Mail comes in and I read it. One message has a 20-mile-long url
to a javascrypt-infested web site that lynx can't handle. I
should forward this message to the Mac and there, I can use
safari to handle that message.
You do not forward anything via pop.
Instead you filter and save the
Hi,
I just finished installing FreeBSD on a machine whose CMOS time is not
set to UTC.
The System time is reported correctly (using 'date') but, suprisingly
(?), 'ls -la' reports that, among others, the files belonging to the
skeleton in the user home have been modified... in the future
Hi,
I am in deep need of help right now.
I am preparing some training about using email and am looking for that
small rhyme saying that you should reply after the quote of the
original message, not before it.
That rhyme is written backward saying something like why whouldn't
you back quote,
for reasons that are beyond me, a few hours ago i stopped being able to
connect with my mail server. mutt tells me (connection refused);
the other GUI mailer say zip; they simply do not connect.
i rebooted my HUB among other things; before that, i could not get outside my
network; nor
Hi,
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
Is this the one you mean?
Top posting, that's the word I was missing, now I could find that:
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is
Reading this thread, someone else mentioned beep codes and that if there
were none, it's most likely a fried motherboard.
Can anyone else confirm this?
Hummm, I think that is the CPU is missing/dead, you would get no beep.
Olivier
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Anybody got any ideas what the problem may be? I'm thinking possibly
the power on switch but that seems a long shot and there seems no easy
way to replace it.
Check if teh power on button is not stucked in the pushed position, it
happens on old cases that the plastic get old and dusty and the
Anybody got any ideas what the problem may be? I'm thinking possibly
the power on switch but that seems a long shot and there seems no easy
way to replace it.
In the process of dis-assembling the machine and re-assembling is, you
may want to use a rubber to clean the contacts on the RAM and
I said that I am not sure but that even
spamassin could be configured to run under send mail or if that does
not work that to move from sendmail to another could be the solution
and not so difficult, like postfix.
Of course it can.
In the ports you have a thing called spammilter? that is
Just curios I have a client that has a dedicated server using CPanel.
I am just curios that they are using Exim as the MTA . I imagine that
has an an advantage for using under CPanel.
I never laid my hand on any Exim server, I don't even know what CPanel
is. If it's a kind of GUI for Exim, I
I am deciding for a good text editor (suggestions?
Your opening the pandora box of flame war :)
Emacs with no doubt, because I have been using it for over 20 years,
over 3 major operating systems (Multics, DOS/Windows, all possible
Unix and the like). So yes, I feel very at ease with Emacs and
Hi,
Can I run open office cross platform on BSD?
Yes.
Does BSD run the .exe files?
Some, via some emulators. If you install VMWare you can run a full
Windows machine in FreeBSD.
Does BSD recognise SATA drives?
Of course.
Olivier
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Is there any facility in FreeBSD for generating a random hostname? We
have a template with a fixed hostname that has to be changed after
the template is closed. It would be useful to have a hostname
I have somewhere a Perl script that can be used/adapted to generate
pseudo English words.
You
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